Melbourne Dreaming

'Melbourne Dreaming' is designed for self-guided tours of historical and contemporary places of Aboriginal significance throughout the city of Melbourne. You can spend from 30 minutes to a day exploring the city via GPS-enabled maps and contextual audio.

You can plan your trips to suit your available time, by locality or interest or find general information about facilities, opening hours, cost, public transport and links to useful websites.

NACCHO : Aboriginal health in Aboriginal hands

This app made by the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) helps you find an Aboriginal health service, find hotlines from Ambulance to Women's Health, and browse a list of all current AFL Aboriginal players.

Sharing the Dreaming

Sharing the Dreaming is a window into Aboriginal culture: the culture of the Nyoongar, the traditional custodians of Australia’s South-West. Listen to Dreamtime stories, illustrated by images of paintings in the local style. Hear and learn Nyoongar words and their English language translations.

Soundtrails

Soundtrails helps you explore places of historical significance while you're physically walking them, but you can also explore them remotely. The app covers several that are of Aboriginal significance and related to the Freedom Rides, Aboriginal diggers and Myall Creek massacre.

Traditional Wiradjuri Culture

This app explores the culture and traditions of the Wiradjuri People. The app includes chapters on shelters, bush resources, tools, weapons and traditional art. Learn about Wiradjuri culture through detailed text, interactive activities, videos and beautiful images.

Trakka

Trakka will keep you informed about Aboriginal cultural events, sites and services in any location throughout Australia. Featuring a calendar of local events and festivals, links to relevant local services and info on key local significant Aboriginal sites, Trakka will keep you up to date and connected with Indigenous culture. The app includes a direct chat forum for each local region.

Virtual Songlines – Meanjin

Brett Leavy is an immersive heritage specialist, virtual historian and artist. His passion to educate about Aboriginal history let him to recreate the real environment for mapping Aboriginal culture and heritage with Virtual Meanjin.

The game transports players 300 years into the past, to an Australia prior to invasion. It looks similar to World of Warcraft and is based on extensive research into what Brisbane and Sydney's landscapes looked like at the time. The game carefully considers everything from the topography and plants to the documented historical names and customs of the local indigenous population of the period.

Aboriginal media apps

Koori Radio

93.7FM Koori Radio 2LND is Sydney’s only Aboriginal full-time community radio station broadcasting a mix of local, international and assorted Aboriginal music from around the world and across Australia.

Healesville High School - Dreamtime Stories

Under the guidance of Aunty Joy Murphy, our Wurundjeri elder, students undertook an intensive 2 days of Dreamtime story telling, culminating in 4 Dreamtime stories told through striking artwork and narrated in the students' own voices. In the app you can swipe through and immerse yourself in these four beautifully told traditional stories, tap on the pictures to explore different elements and find out how to say them in Wurundjeri.

Ngurrara – Australian Aboriginal Storybook

Ngurrara follows the journeys of three young Australian Aboriginal Ngarluma men as they fish, hunt and carve their own stories. It is set on Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula) As the landscape, the people and culture change over millennia, one thing remains the same, the Ngarluma people 'were always here.'

Ringbalin – River Stories

In 2010 the Ringbalin, a group of Indigenous tribes reignited an ancient ceremony, a Ringbalin, travelling 2300km, dancing to save Australia’s Murray Darling Rivers from a crippling drought. By the time they had finished rain had started falling. What followed were the biggest floods in Australian records.

Warlu Song – Australian Aboriginal Storybook

A spirit man journeys with a terrifying serpent, ripping up trees with an angry wind, smashing the land with floods and changing the country forever. Continuing the Aboriginal oral tradition, this story was dreamt by a songsmith and is here sung in Yindjibarndi and spoken in English.

Yugambeh – Australian Aboriginal Storybook

Yugambeh Aboriginal language from the Gold Coast, Logan and Scenic Rim regions in Queensland, at your fingertips for educators, visitors and community. Includes audio, dictionary and pictionary files. Developed by the Yugambeh Museum to re-invigorate use of their traditional language.

Language apps

Barngarla Dictionary

Explore and learn the language and culture of the Barngarla people, search in Barngarla and English or images. The Barngarla dictionary is changing the way people learn language and connect with culture.

FirstVoices Keyboards app

FirstVoices is an Aboriginal typing app with hundreds of Aboriginal languages available.

Prior to invasion there were about 250 different languages, only 145 of which are still spoken today. The app helps Aboriginal people regain the everyday use of their heritage languages by texting, typing, sending emails, creating documents and using social media in their traditional languages.

Kriol Dictionary

Kriol is spoken across the Kimberley region of Western Australia and in a belt across the Northern Territory centred around Katherine. It is Australia's largest Aboriginal language with some 30,000 speakers.

Kulila!

Ma Gamilaraay

Gamilaraay and Yuwaalaraay are languages from inland eastern Australia, from northern New South Wales and the very south of Queensland.

Ma!Gamilaraay is a dictionary and phrasebook of these languages. Many of the words are spoken by Arthur Dodd and Ted Fields, Yuwaalaraay speakers who were recorded in the 1970s. They were the last people with extensive knowledge of either language. Other words and the phrases are spoken by contemporary learners of the languages.

Ma Iwaida

The Ma! Iwaidja app is an initiative of the Minjilang Endangered Languages Publication project. Anyone interacting with the language in any way, including Iwaidja speakers becomes an instant documentary linguist. Adding a new word with transcription is as simple as adding a new contact to your Contacts list.

Miriwoong

Miriwoong is the name of the Miriwoong people and their endangered language. The Miriwoong are the traditional owners of the lands around Kununurra in Western Australia and stretching about 100km into the Northern Territory.

This app includes a dictionary of 1,400 Miriwoong words and phrases including audio support, a learning area with games and an “Explore” section where users can discover the vocabulary by categories/topics. The “About” section features interesting background information and a link to the Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre (MDWg), the creator of this language resource.

Nari Nari Dictionary

NT Languages – Anindilyakwa

A flash card language app developed by the Northern Territory Library comprising everyday words and phrases in Anindilyakwa and English. This app is a bilingual literacy tool for people in Anindilyakwa communities, as well as English-speaking workers and visitors to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Wonnarua Dictionary

Yawuru Ngan-ga

Explore the language of the Yawuru people from Broome in Western Australia. Browse their dictionary, or just explore via categories. Find out some helpful common phrases for use around town or get stuck into learning the language via a series of word games.

The app caches the content locally, so you can use it offline. Every time the app launches it attempts to retrieve the latest updates from the team at Mabu Yawuru Ngan-ga.

Yitha Yitha Dictionary

Yugambeh App

Yugambeh Museum's language app. Built to re-invigorate the use of traditional languages by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community members and close the educational gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians.

Self-help apps

Deadly Tots

The Deadly Tots App contains information for every Aboriginal family to help their toddler learn and grow: You can add photos of your child and create a memory book, choose captions, add contacts for local services, and let the app send reminders on immunisations and blue book checks to you.

My Mob

MyMob encourages positive communication to help you build a stronger family. You can share private messages (via a virtual fridge), calendars and other information with your mob. The app offers message boards, a kids zone, family diary and resources for all kinds of situations. You can set up profiles for each member of your family and have more than one mob at a time – great for grandparents and blended families.

Museum and collection apps

Indigenous Australian: Art Gallery of New South Wales

Indigenous Australian: Art Gallery of NSW lets you explore a selection of artists and artworks from our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection. View high-quality images in extraordinary detail, discover stories of the artists and the art, get simple explanations of art terms, and go behind the scenes with interviews and videos.

Ranging from bark paintings to photography, sculpture to shell work, weavings to watercolour, the app includes work by significant artists such as Emily Kam Ngwarray.

AIATSIS Collections Search app

With this app, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) helps you access its collections. You can search the catalogue, download items, manage your account, and find suggested reading.